Recombination

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  • noun. The natural or artificial rearrangement of genetic material in living organisms or viruses, especially the creation in offspring of sexually reproducing parents of new combinations of genes through the process of crossing over during meiosis.
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  • noun. Combination a second or additional time.
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  • noun. Combination a second or subsequent time.
  • noun. The formation of genetic combinations in offspring that are not present in the parents
  • noun. The reverse of dissociation
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  • noun. (physics) a combining of charges or transfer of electrons in a gas that results in the neutralization of ions; important for ions arising from the passage of high-energy particles
  • noun. (genetics) a combining of genes or characters different from what they were in the parents
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    "Examine interfertility and what differences (if any) in recombination that results in."
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